Thermal and water regime studied in a thin soil layer of green roof systems at early stage of pedogenesis

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 2568-2579

  Jelinkova, Vladimira ^a   Dohnal, Michal ^a   Sacha, Jan ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Actual evapotranspiration; Green roof substrates; Hydrological performance; Non invasive imaging; Thermal regime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969939734     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-016-1457-7     Document Type: Article

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